This activity is a perfect reading warm up for my students who are working on beginning decoding skills. By having students physically manipulate the letters, students stay engaged! If you do not have letter tiles, I have created free paper tiles that come with the practice mat available at my store.
Students place the red vowel tiles on the sheet while saying the sound of each vowel.
Give students 2 blue consonant tiles that are placed on either side of "a." Students will say the sounds once slowly and then once faster. Have the student slide down to the next vowel and repeat. Because they are using the same consonants for each vowel, they are getting a lot of practice differentiating those tricky vowels!
Once the student has completed the column. Have them go back and place the blue tiles back by the "a." Have them say the word out loud and decide if it is a real or nonsense word. During this activity, we focus on sound spelling instead of formal spelling. If a student says "wuz" is a real word, they write it as a real word, and I discuss that with sound spelling it is a real word, but in our formal writing we spell it differently. I want my students to build the phonemic awareness they are lacking, instead of getting hung up on proper spelling.
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